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54 The Costume Designer Winter 2021 Capturing the colorful mosaic of New Orleans through costume design For Showtime's Your Honor, costume designer Caroline B. Marx and assistant costume designer Ken Van Duyne worked with a carefully controlled color palette to differ- entiate the clans of New Orleans who populate this dark tale of morality and family loyalties. The dueling nature of the show—good versus evil, the courts versus the mob, as well as a Romeo and Juliet subplot—are subtly underlined by the two competing color schemes for the lead families. Michael Desiato (Bryan Cranston) is like a superhero when cloaked in his judge's robe. Because he is ruled by his moral character and very connected to the city, he and his family are dressed in grounding earth tones like brown, green, and blue. As the character unravels over the course of the season, his suits and ties grow darker and darker in tone. The rich and corrupt Baxter clan wear dark and bloody tones with a touch of royalty—black, grey, and burgundy, with traces of NOLA purple and gold. "We liked the idea of a uniform for Jimmy Baxter (Michael Stuhlbarg)," Marx says. "He's a mob boss with so much on his mind he doesn't want to think about his clothes." They went through a lengthy process to find the perfect grey fabric for his bespoke suit. Although it changes under different lighting, Marx explains that it is indeed the same suit, and he wears it throughout the show, only changing once into black for his son's funeral. His wife Gina Baxter (Hope by Alexandra Welker Crescent City Hues Bryan Cranston as Michael Desiato Photo: Skip Bolen, courtesy Showtime Andrene Ward-Hammond as Big Mo and Keith Machekanyanga as Lil Mo Photo: Courtesy Showtime